BOOK/chapter06/gawk-inst.xml

   1 <sect2>
   2 <title>Installation of Gawk</title>
   3
   4 <para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
   5 install it. Make sure it's unpacked before running the installation
   6 commands.</para>
   7
   8 <para>Warning: do NOT run <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> on this
   9 package if you apply the patch to change the
  10 <filename class="directory">libexec</filename> directory definition. The
  11 <emphasis>uninstall</emphasis> rule in the <filename>Makefile</filename>
  12 file runs a command like <userinput>rm -rf
  13 &lt;libexecdir&gt;/*</userinput> Since we change the <filename
  14 class="directory">libexec</filename> directory to <filename
  15 class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> it'll run <userinput>rm -rf
  16 /usr/bin/*</userinput></para>
  17
  18 <para>Install Gawk by running the following commands:</para>
  19
  20 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gawk-&gawk-patch-version;.patch &amp;&amp;
  21 ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin &amp;&amp;
  22 make &amp;&amp;
  23 make install</userinput></screen></para>
  24
  25 </sect2>
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